I am Andrea, living in Germany, and very interested in an exchange year in Scotland. I have applied through my employer for a scholarship and next Monday evening I will hold a talk that will probably decide about my chances to be accepted as a scholar. Since the deciding panel which will listen to my talk consists of Germans and Scots, I would like to start my talk with greeting everybody in their language.

Therefore I would like to ask for your help with Gàidhlig and if possible, Scots, too.I have just finally decided to learn Gaelic but I have no grammar so far and I am totally overwhelmed by pronunciation since I just own a book to learn and have no teacher in person.

I have done my best giving it a try, but - please - need your correction/help (especially with pronunciation, too).

I would like to say:

Good evening (at 8 p.m.) and very welcome to my presentation/talk. My name is Andrea and I am very happy that you have all come here/joined me here tonight.

A 100.000 thanks to you. It is a nice day today and I am very happy. (Now I have to follow on in English only, sorry)

Thank you so much for your help, I do apprediate it so much. The Gaelic learning virus has totally taken me over since I started playing with the great pronuniation help from your link. Thanks so much, now it is fun learning with my book and I hope so much to get that scholarship and the chance to continue learning Gaelic in Scotland.

I got help with Scots, too, so I am now ready to win "the jury" over - already with the greeting

You haven't missed too many sessions of the Beginners' course - I see it started on 20 Sept. Maybe contact them and ask if you can join it now? >That would be helpful for pronunciation and solidarity with your learning!